Archive: sociolinguistics

• Creation Nets and the Future of Social Networks

  By bkk25@georgetown.edu February 28, 2013

  Since the beginning of the new year, there has been much talk of Facebook’s Graph Search and the company’s attempt to quantify the information goldmine that makes up a social network. Analyzing how in

  Categories: 2013, The Gnovis Blog Tags: collaboration, Creation Nets, creativity, facebook, Innovation and social networks, John Hagel, John Seely Brown, linguistics, online networks, SLNA, Social Language Network Analysis, social network analysis, social scientists, sociolinguistics, technology and cooperation

• History Does Re-actualize Itself: Intertextuality and Social Change

  By MRazavi October 17, 2012

  “There can be no statement that does not reactualize others.”  Norman Fairclough (1992), a linguistic, quotes Foucault in his book Discourse and Social Change.  In other words, nothing we say is compl

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: identity, identity creation, intertextuality, linguistics, perception, social change, social psychology, sociolinguistics, sociopolitics

• When can a token not be a token?: Indirectly legitimizing status discrimination through language

  By MRazavi March 12, 2012

  In his book “Discourse and Social Change” (1992) Norman Fairclough writes, “Discourse practices contribute to reproducing society as it is—explaining what is going on as well as transforming it.” He r

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: American Dream, identity, immigrants, immigration, multiculturalism, social psychology, sociolinguistics